Shelby Steele: The Loneliness of the “Black Conservative”

"Whenever my talk was finished, though sometimes before, a virtual militia of angry black students would rush to the microphones and begin to scream. At first I thought of them as Mau Maus but decided this was unfair to the real Mau Maus, who, though ruthless terrorists, had helped bring independence to Kenya in the 1950s. My confronters were not freedom fighters; they were Carrie Nation–like enforcers, racial bluenoses who lived in terror of certain words. Repression was their game, not liberation, and they said as much. 'You can’t say that in front of the white man.' 'Your words will be used against us.' 'Why did you write this book?' 'You should only print that in a black magazine.' Their outrage brought to light an ironic and unnoticed transformation in the nature of black American anger from the sixties to the nineties: a shift in focus from protest to suppression, from blowing the lid off to tightening it down. And, short of terrorism, shame is the best instrument of repression."

I imagine all the people screaming "YOU LIE!"

November 06, 2009

"On this day in 1956, Martin Luther King voted for the Republican presidential ticket, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.

(Who is screaming "LIAR!"?)

"Martin Luther King told Nixon of his vote during a public meeting in Ghana, where they were attending a presidential inauguration.

"While campaigning for re-election, Vice President Richard Nixon declared: "Most of us will live to see the day when American boys and girls will sit, side by side, at any school - public or private - with no respect paid to the color of skin. Segregation, discrimination and prejudice have no place in America."

"The following year, Vice President Nixon helped defeat the Democrat filibuster against the GOP's 1957 Civil Rights Act."

I did not vote for Bill Clinton, but....

....He was much more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than the recent recipient.

Black Conservative Voices Courageously Step Away from the Crowd

"We’ve all too often heard hateful rhetoric directed at black conservatives for daring to think differently from their kinsmen, so when 96% of the black community votes in virtual lockstep for a candidate, it takes immense courage for a smaller number of blacks to disagree and vote in opposition. However, pulling the lever to support a conservative candidate or idea in the privacy of a polling booth is easier and safer than speaking out publicly. Ironic, isn’t it, that all of us are rightfully expected to embrace diverse shades of melanin, yet in contrast, many in the black community seem to assume or demand that there be no diversity of opinion in the political arena. Fortunately, uniformity of thought is being challenged by individual thinkers within the black community."

World Net Daily: Obama ripped for plan to bring back 'inquisitions'

"Witch hunt' expected under new U.S. 'hate crimes' law"

Los Angeles Times: Oops! Turns out Obama's cost-cutting health plan won't save a dime; cheaper to do nothing

"It's probably just coincidental that bad numbers about President Obama's much-coveted healthcare legislation came out late last week when few people were paying attention.

"This is the absolutely crucial healthcare reform plan that simply had to be drafted, discussed, debated, amended and passed before early August. It's supposed to cover millions more Americans and reduce the nation's soaring medical costs.

"Turns out, not."

New York Times: Twitter Tapping

"The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and modifying privacy laws as necessary for the online era."